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TEXACO TO SPONSOR NEW BRC RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP

Texaco West Indies Limited is the title sponsor of a new Barbados Rally Club (BRC) championship, which will be known as the Texaco BRC Rally Championship. Club chairman Bruce Lambert confirmed the three-year deal at the Club's Annual General Meeting at Kendall Sporting Club on Wednesday night (February 16) to an enthusiastic reception from members.

MOTOR SPORT SPONSORSHIP HITS NEW HIGH

Members of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) enjoyed an up-beat Annual General Meeting at Kendall Sporting on Wednesday night (February 16), with confirmation of unprecedented levels of sponsorship for the Club's 2005 championships, and news of a return to profit for Rally Barbados.
In stark contrast to last year's AGM, at which a number of senior members pressed the committee of management for reassurances that the Club's financial position was sound, Wednesday's meeting was extremely positive.

RUF 'N' TUF BACK FOR SECOND NAVIGATIONAL SEASON

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is celebrating this week: following Monday's announcement that Virgin Atlantic is to sponsor the BRC Driver's Championship in 2005 comes confirmation that Barbados Industries Ltd will again back the club's 4 x 4 Navigational Championship under its brand name Ruf 'n' Tuf.

BRC SEASON GETS UNDER WAY SUNDAY

Virgin Atlantic is to sponsor the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver's Championship in 2005. The club's competition season is slated to get under way this Sunday (February 20) with a loose-surface speed event, heralding an unexpected return to the Black Bess Plantation in St Peter.

HIGH PRAISE FOR BAJAN RESULTS IN RALLY JAMAICA

Barbados Rally Club (BRC) members – and supporters in their hundreds, among them last year’s second-placed finisher, Roger Skeete - have been returning home from Jamaica in the past few days, celebrating a superb performance in that country’s Petcom-sponsored International Rally, organised by the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club.

RUF ’N’ TUF LIVED UP TO ITS NAME

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) recently-concluded Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd, was a great success . . . and that’s official! Competitors, organisers and the sponsor are in agreement that the championship’s first year exceeded all expectations.

CRONEY AND GILL WIN RUF’N’TUF TITLES

After four well-supported and competitive events during the season, Kenny Croney has won the Navigator’s title in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd . . . but the organisers had to revert to the tie-break rules to settle the matter.

FINAL CHANCE TO SCORE POINTS

Competition is expected to be intense in the fourth and final round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd, which is slated for next Sunday (November 7).
Kenney Croney leads the Navigators’ championship by 12 points from Anna-Lee Alleyne, while Derek Gill heads the Drivers’ points table with 45 points, chased by Croney’s driver Philip McConney, who has 36 points.

HILL WINS BRC STAGE RALLY

Roger Hill and Eric Allamby in the Mobil 1/Nassco/Michelin/Motormac Toyota Celica GT4 were declared provisional winners of Sunday’s (October 31) BRC Stage Rally, the final round of the 2004 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Drivers’ Championship.
Barry Gale/Ryan Rodriguez (Automotive Art/Courts/Kerridge/Yokohama/ Simpson Motors Rally Team Mitsubishi Evo VI) finished second, five seconds behind, with Sean Dowding/Jason Cozier (Pro Pac/Globe Finance Mitsubishi Evo V) third, another three seconds adrift.

LAST-MINUTE ENTRIES BOOST NUMBERS

A number of last-minute entries for the final round of the 2004 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Drivers' Championship tomorrow (Sunday) have boosted the start list to at least 24 cars. Titled the BRC Stage Rally, this mixed-surface event will run at Hangman's Hill and the Vaucluse Raceway in St Thomas and Black Bess Plantation in St Peter.

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